Oh I forgot the cygcheck output, here it is attached. Also sshd is working right now, but this log was last written at some point in the past when it wasn't:
$ cat /var/log/cygsshd.log 0 [main] sshd 232 dofork: child -1 - CreateProcessW failed for 'C:\cygwin64\usr\sbin\sshd.exe', errno 30 Regards, Raman On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 1:46 PM Raman Gupta <rocketra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:21 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > wrote: > >> On 17.06.2020 20:46, Raman Gupta via Cygwin wrote: >> > Hello all, for some reason I've started having troubles with cygwin >> sshd, >> > despite having successfully used it for years. Not sure if some recent >> > Windows updates broke it or something, but now I'm getting the infamous: >> > >> > sshd: PID 1855: fatal: seteuid 1049703: No such device or address >> > >> > I believe I've followed all the advice given on this list over the years >> > regarding this error: >> > >> > * installed cygwin 64-bit (this fixed it for a while, but now its broken >> > again) >> > * uninstalled the service, and reinstalled with ssh-host-config >> > * verified all permissions on home, .ssh, and authorized_keys files are >> > correct (and configuring in non-strict mode doesn't work either anyway) >> > * running the service as Local System (as installed by recent versions >> of >> > ssh-host-config) >> > * updated to the latest openssh version available (this also fixed it >> for a >> > while, but then it broke again) >> > * removing any /etc/password or /etc/group files >> > * removing any value for CYGWIN environment variable >> > >> > $ cygcheck -c openssh >> > Cygwin Package Information >> > Package Version Status >> > openssh 8.3p1-1 OK >> > >> > What's very odd is that, recently, I seem to be able to get it to work >> with >> > various approaches (see above), it works for a while, and then it borks >> > again. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Raman >> > -- >> >> Corporate computer with continuous reset of corporate policy ? >> I had such experience in the past. >> >> please provide the cygcheck.out as ATTACHMENT >> see https://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > It is a Windows domain, but I manage the domain and AFAIK there is no such > policy / reset mechanism. > > Oddly enough, a reboot seems to have "fixed" it, at least for now. I > wonder if the previous "fixes" were more about reboots as opposed to actual > configuration changes as well... > > If it works fine, and then randomly breaks until a reboot, what might be > the cause of that? > > Regards, > Raman >
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